Paravastu Chinnayasuri
Paravastu Chinnayasuri | |
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| Native name | పరవస్తు చిన్నయ సూరి |
| Born | Chinnaya 1806 |
| Died | 1862 (aged 55–56) |
| Occupation | Teacher and writer |
| Language | Telugu |
| Literary movement | Telugu prose |
| Notable works | Nīticaṃdrika, Bālavyākaraṇamu |
| Relatives | Paravastu Venkataranga Ramanujacharyulu and Srinivasamba (parents) |
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Paravastu Chinnayasuri (1806/7–1861/2)[1] was a Telugu writer who played a prominent role in the elevation of prose to importance in Telugu literature.[2] He was the first Telugu Pandit at the Presidency College, Madras.[3] He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company. He was acclaimed as a profound scholar in Telugu and Sanskrit in the traditional education. More than a third of his life span was spent in teaching Telugu in schools and in the Presidency college, Madras.
Life
[edit | edit source]Paravastu Chinnayasuri was born in 1806/7 in Perambur of Chengalpattu district in a Satani family[4][5] He was the son of Venkata Rangayya, a Vaishnavite scholar. He worked as a Telugu teacher at Pachaiyappa's College in Madras. He also worked as a law scholar for the Supreme Court of East India Company. He was a Pundit in the Telugu, Sanskrit, Prakrit, and Tamil languages. He died in 1861/2.
Literary works
[edit | edit source]Chinnayasuri translated the first two books of the Sanskrit Panchatantra into Telugu, entitling his translation the Nīticaṃdrika. It was published by Vavilla Ramaswamy Sastrulu and Sons in Madras.[6] He wrote the Bālavyākaraṇamu (transl. Children's Grammar), a textbook for teaching Telugu grammar in schools.[7] He translated Thomas Lumisden Strange's Manual of Hindoo Law of 1856, entitling it the Hiṃdūdharmaśāstrasaṃgrahamu.[8]
References
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External links
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- https://web.archive.org/web/20070310212743/http://www.teluguworld.org/lit.html
- http://panchatantra.org/index.html Archived 6 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- https://web.archive.org/web/20090410030240/http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/Books/12/Telugu/Prose/1%20Mithrabedhamu.pdf
- https://archive.org/stream/HistoryCultureOfTheAndhras/TXT/00000324.txt
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